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Pharma companies deny manufacturing drugs flagged in CDSCO report
The CDSCO's drug alert for August included samples from batches of...
Star Health sues Telegram after hacker uses app’s chatbots to leak data
Star has received a temporary injunction from a court in its home...
Post-pandemic, 30% more cancer patients treated at Mumbai’s TMC
“We are treating 30 per cent more patients. This means that 30 per cent of patients were not treated during the pandemic and they are now coming back. Some of them are not greatly advanced, but some of them are,” said TMC Director Dr Rajendra Badwe Mumbai:...
On World Patient Safety Day, WHO stresses on ending unsafe medication practices, errors
In low- and middle-income countries – including in the WHO South-East Asia Region – patient harm due to unsafe care contributes to an estimated 134 million adverse events annually resulting in around 2.6 million deaths, WHO Regional Director for South-East Asia Dr...
Maharashtra FDA cancels Johnson & Johnson baby powder manufacturing license
The press note said that the samples of Johnson's Baby Powder were declared "Not of Standard Quality". FDA Maharashtra had taken the samples of Johnson's Baby Powder at Pune and Nashik for quality check purposes Mumbai: Food & Drugs Administration, Maharashtra,...
Portal launched to provide info on blood availability across country: Mandaviya
''Once someone logs into the portal and clicks on a particular state and then a district, one can see the blood banks accessible in that area and the specific contact details,'' Mandaviya said at the meet attended by regional reporters from different cities, including...
Healthcare claims platform Coverself gets USD 4.8 mn
Founded in 2021, Coverself is a transparent healthcare platform, which works in a collaborative and comprehensive SaaS platform for all stakeholders, that help in removing administrative waste and duplication of efforts Mumbai: Cloud platform for healthcare claims and...
Not just big pharma: how social factors affect overprescription in India
India is afflicted by a boom in depression. A mind-boggling 56 million of its people have the condition, and another 38 million have an anxiety disorder. It was among India's top 15 causes of early death in 2019. Not surprisingly, antidepressants are rife:...
Hysterectomies in younger Indian women are influenced by insurance subsidies
The research found that women eligible for Aarogyasri health insurance (which reimbursed both public and private hospitals) were 2.8 percent more likely to undergo hysterectomy than women outside the programme – and also found that their odds of undergoing a...
Govt drops antacid Ranitidine from National List of Essential Medicines 2022
"People keep on taking these drugs for long duration that can give some kind of side effects. I must say that these drugs should be used for a specified duration and only under prescription and treating physician or gastroenterologist," emphasized Dr. S Chatterjee,...
Older adults with COVID-19 at 80 percent higher risk of Alzheimer’s: Study
''The factors that play into the development of Alzheimer's disease have been poorly understood, but two pieces considered important are prior infections, especially viral infections, and inflammation,'' said Pamela Davis, from the Case Western Reserve School of...
WHO issues Global guidance framework for responsible use of life sciences
Ministries of health are called upon to work with other ministries, including of science and technology, education, agriculture, environment and defense, along with other key stakeholders, to assess the risks posed by life sciences locally and nationally, and identify...